Welcome to Starlight Shores!
"...has a look and vibe that was inspired by Southern California locations such as Venice Beach and Hollywood Boulevard"
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Live the rags to riches story with your Sims while being connected to your friends! Experience the rise to stardom as your Sim performs on stage from one venue to the next. And for the first time, The Sims 3 Showtime introduces social features, including Passport, an all-new feature that lets you send your Sims to a friend’s game! There, your Sim can perform at your friend’s venue in front of your friend’s Sims! You will also be able to chat with friends and post messages and screenshots on your friends’ walls.
• Your Sims can live the dream as Singers, Performers, Magicians, and DJs. Watch them rise to fame—or go down in flames as they perform for other Sims.
• All-new social features: chat with friends, post to their walls, give status updates, and create friends lists.
• Send your Sims to a friend’s game and have your friend’s Sim come to your game!
• Create your own venue! Build a swanky concert hall, a massive stadium, or an indie club. How the stage is built will influence your Sims’ performance and career progression.
• Get a bonus venue and stage for your Sims to perform in the Limited Edition!
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Genie/Genie Lamp
-"You can make wishes using the Genie and also once your relationship with it is high enough you can make a wish to free it (this will add it to your household)"
-"It can ‘Banish’ a sim which will just send them off to a different lot. It can also spawn perfect dishes of any food apart from Ambrosia (I assume this will include food from WA holiday destinations too)."
-Wishes
--World Peace (Makes Sim Happy)
--Resurrect Sim (Revives the dead)
--More Wishes (You only get 1, so it's pointless, and only there for laughs)
--Love (Forces a sim to love you)
--Long Life (Adds days to your life cycle)
--Large Family (Increases fertility)
--Happiness (Mood Boost)
--Fortune (Receive money)
--Beauty (Increases attraction)
--Free Genie (Requires a long process)
-Genie (and I assume other occults) can be a magician

-Skills:
-Disk Jockey (DJ)

Gameplay:
-Death By Magic
-Excellent performances cause crowds to throws things such as flowers at you. Bad performances can lead to the crowd throwing things at you, like rotten lettuce. This done when you watch a performance and when you give a performance.
-Perform and Compete at SimFest (Talent show)!
-You can duel other Sims!
-Record songs, and hear them on the radio (I think)
-Mishaps, such as fires, falls, and a loss of voice, can happen while on stage.
-Performances are Orchestrated.
-Interaction with the crowd (like telling jokes, or insults)
-When creating a stage, you snap into "buy" mode mode
-Sims walk in a see you perform
-Sims can go see a live show
-Sims take requests
-Woo-Hoo in the box of mystery
-Choose your own work outfit
-Give demos to proprietors
-Audition to perform at venues
-Woo Hoo-ing in the photobooth will produce photos, but sims will rip them up.
-Sims can have a stage name.
-You can hire performers for parties
-Recipes will have vegetarian options and newly added is Fried Peanut Butter and a Banana Sandwich. There is also tofu.
-Various games can be played on the pool table, such as "Put Put Gnome". You can even play for tips.
-You cannot Woo-Hoo during a performance
-Golf is a skill
-Makeup has been separated
-Private Venues are Shells (I think)

Stages:Stages are comprised of various items, such as props. Its hard to determine what is what, so it's hard to list.
-Stage Floor Lights
-Large Free Standing Lights
-Candelabra
-Large Back Lights
-Circular Lights

So, it's basically stuff that should have been included in Late Night with added chat, facebook and twitter interface. I suggest we create bogus facebook accounts, then befriend all Sims 3 developers listed in the credits and spam their facebook accounts with our sims updates. Then get our sims to use the voodoo doll and pray for a meteor storm to wipe out all facebook data centers.

Hopefully this is like Superstar. I mean, LN, to me, felt like a clubbing expansion with a fame system tacked on, so I don't really feel
Ike this is 'what should have been in LN', but more like the rest of something that was started as an extra in that pack.
But if the LN fame system and the fame system used in SHT aren't the same thing, I may throw a bitchfit.

So, it's basically stuff that should have been included in Late Night with added chat, facebook and twitter interface. I suggest we create bogus facebook accounts, then befriend all Sims 3 developers listed in the credits and spam their facebook accounts with our sims updates. Then get our sims to use the voodoo doll and pray for a meteor storm to wipe out all facebook data centers.

Late night part duex. Might have gotten that wrong, hope it is understandable. I thought the developers said this EP would be something new? Oh that's right, Facebook features. New but not wanted at least by me. I can see the spam of simmers asking to add their Sims in my game, just as bad as the spam for Sim Social. Sigh.

I will not get this EP right away, will wait for the irritants to be modded out.

The non-social features are great. It's just that I can't see how they are enough for an entire EP at this time; thus, they should have been included in LN. But EA was slick enough to use the absence of DJ booths and singing in LN as a marketing ploy to get us to purchase SHT, since many of us wanted those features. What other explanation is there? They surely had time to develop those features before the release of LN, since such features are not as complex as, say, weather. Damn, and now I really want that DJ booth to make my clubs feel complete. EA knew that many of us we would think this way. Oh, well. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do at this point. The content itself does look good so far, but I only hope that the social features can be turned off.

If they include weather, if only a thunderstorm, then it might be a saving grace for EA. I still will be avoiding the new patch and the EP until the modding community gets to the FB features. I know for sure that will be a patch feature.

And I totally don't get the Passport feature... my sims can't travel between different worlds within my game but they are gonna be able to travel to some other dudes game? What's up with that?
Probably just the option of direct sharing of sims disguised as something more.

I've only seen it on a male, do don't kill EA for that... not yet, at least. It would be a nice touch to have thunder storms short out and outdoor concert. :p

I wonder what things we'll have to fill our new venues with. Some row seatings, a popcorn stand (god I pray), and maybe some place to buy crap like a t-Shirt or a picture to hang on a wall. I really hope EA doesn't skimp on the celebrity experince. Just performing would be a REALLY bare EP. Even Generations gave us more to do.

What if SHT included open restaurants and spas? Do you think it'd be enough for a saving grace?

I do wonder if the new stadium and theater are just new venue types as ways to substitute the rabbit hole versions. Maybe we no longer need the rabbit hole versions, since the new ones are open versions? That would be interesting.

If late night didnt exist people would go crazy for about singing and DJ-ing and superstar stuff in general. Late night being a thing for some reason makes people get angry about it?

Nobody cried about superstar being "hot date expansion expansion", so why is this "late night expansion expansion"?? Just becuase they didnt give you what you wanted for night life doesnt mean it isn't worth its own expansion...what the heck!!!

If late night didnt exist people would go crazy for about singing and DJ-ing and superstar stuff in general. Late night being a thing for some reason makes people get angry about it?

Nobody cried about superstar being "hot date expansion expansion", so why is this "late night expansion expansion"?? Just becuase they didnt give you what you wanted for night life doesnt mean it isn't worth its own expansion...what the heck!!!

I think the fact that many people wanted weather instead just means that the wait for it is that much longer. Besides, it's mostly the social features that are enraging fans.

I like the singing/DJ stuff, don't care if it's close to LN or not, I just like those features. The FB/Twitter features are a different story, and while I WILL buy the expansion so I can use all CC I want, but I won't install until there are mods to prevent all this FB/Twitter bull. Though I may just do the fake FB/Twitter idea if all else fails.

What if SHT included open restaurants and spas? Do you think it'd be enough for a saving grace?

I do wonder if the new stadium and theater are just new venue types as ways to substitute the rabbit hole versions. Maybe we no longer need the rabbit hole versions, since the new ones are open versions? That would be interesting.

If it included open restaurants and spas that would be a miracle. If the theaters were open spaces and we had some audience control that would be good. (No sims wandering on stage mid performance and mucking things up). However, EA has given no indication of having the capacity to create and include something so logical in the game.

Also, I'm skeptical that they will be open venues since EA was idiotic enough to make a 4 x 4 tree house a rabbit hole. The thing is as big a kid's bedroom so there was no reason for that tree house to be a rabbit hole. Still there is a part of me that hopes with each EP that its a new day and they'll do something right for a change. Though EA's past performance with TS3 EPs has taught me not to run out and buy them right away anymore.

Agree with all the sentiments about open restaurants and spas. Why do you keep ignoring the good parts, EA?!

Well if that doesn't happen in this EP, another good thing to bring back would be the ticket machine. With all this buzz about concerts and performances, it would be great to have a versatile physical item to charge customers and patrons. Plus you can use it for other stuff.

I was hoping we would one day get "real" magic, not just show magic. Never got to play TS2 magic at all, and TS1 only a bit, and having a which always fascinated me.

And, I'm also interested in seeing how will the open performance thing work. I hope EA makes it possible to add the singer to a band to mix it up with LN. So you don't end up with either band, or singer.

If it included open restaurants and spas that would be a miracle. If the theaters were open spaces and we had some audience control that would be good. (No sims wandering on stage mid performance and mucking things up). However, EA has given no indication of having the capacity to create and include something so logical in the game.

Also, I'm skeptical that they will be open venues since EA was idiotic enough to make a 4 x 4 tree house a rabbit hole. The thing is as big a kid's bedroom so there was no reason for that tree house to be a rabbit hole. Still there is a part of me that hopes with each EP that its a new day and they'll do something right for a change. Though EA's past performance with TS3 EPs has taught me not to run out and buy them right away anymore.

So being simultanusly hopeful and doubtful my stance is "we'll see"

On the other hand, stages DO exist ingame. Remember that Greek-style amphitheater one of the towns had? If they could manage to keep the audience from mucking it all about, that's not a rabbithole.

Agree with all the sentiments about open restaurants and spas. Why do you keep ignoring the good parts, EA?!

Well if that doesn't happen in this EP, another good thing to bring back would be the ticket machine. With all this buzz about concerts and performances, it would be great to have a versatile physical item to charge customers and patrons. Plus you can use it for other stuff.

EA missed that boat with LN, with the velvet rope things. I think you can set the bribe amount, but it's not really the same as setting a price of entry.